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...Denver, the other double amputee.Bauer, who like Acosta and Duncan, has climbed Tanzania's 19,336-foot MountKilimanjaro, said his climbing days are over after the attempt to climb Mount McKinley.At 64, Bauer is the oldest of the...

...Nico's Challenge," a heartwarming story about a 13-year-old boy who faces special challenges as he climbs MountKilimanjaro, the world's highest freestanding mountain. Doors open for the Kid's Film Festival at 5:30 p.m. The all-ages...

...lives in a cinder block house next to the defunct railroad tracks in Pasua, a neighborhood dwarfed by the skyline of MountKilimanjaro. The house consists of a single room with a red dirt floor and a tin roof - typical for the neighborhood. The...

...Jesse Owens of Palmer is the inventor of the Kili-Cart, a modified wheelchair that let him climb peaks such as MountKilimanjaro. Share this page: Print Email Digg Twitter Yahoo! Archives BARROW -- Shirley Reilly is no quitter. Former...

...National Park highlighted the dangers. There had been almost no poaching in the park, which lies in the shadow of MountKilimanjaro, for 30 years until a Chinese company was awarded the contract to build a highway nearby two years ago.

...flirting with the idea of a Kindle. I go knocking on Google's door at godawful hours, asking for the exact height of MountKilimanjaro or the meaning of the word "oneiric." The instantaneous accessibility of the Internet delights me. But I love...

...dire predictions of irrevocable change due to planetary warming caused by human behavior, the snows receding on MountKilimanjaro. On Nov. 19, 2004, basketball player Ron Artest ignited arguably the worst brawl in U.S. sports history when...

...climbers face in 1994, when he worked for the United Nations in Kenya. Friends asked him to climb the 19,340-foot MountKilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. For any climber, high altitudes can cause headaches, nausea, blurred vision and lack...

...the Midnight Sun Wheelchair Marathon, a 360-mile race every July from Fairbanks to Anchorage. And Jesse Owens of Palmer is the inventor of the Kili-Cart, a modified wheelchair that let him climb peaks such as MountKilimanjaro.

...whose family-business Adventure Club planned the climb. In 1997, Shparo led an expedition of disabled climbers up MountKilimanjaro in Africa. Two years ago, he led a ski expedition of disabled athletes across Greenland. Heroes in Russia This...